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autobiography
This is an 800 page autobiography. It is really more of a study in and of autobiography. It links quotations, some 1600, from the social sciences and the humanities, with my life, my society and my religion--the Baha'i Faith.
"Not beginning at the Beginning...."
My individual journey from the promised land, from my home in Canada, my home town in Burlington Ontario, from one promised land to another and then another I have written in the form of a 800 page autobiography. It took me twenty years to write this piece and in the pages which follow I have included some of chapter one, the introduction. I hope readers find some pleasure here and there:
Dispositions are plausible responses1 to the circumstances individual Baha'is found themselves in and they led, in toto and inter alia, to the gradual em | |  | | Pioneering Over Four Epochs(Website)
Pioneering Over Five Epochs
The 4th edition of my website has the equivalent of 60 books at 80,000 words/book.
The 3rd edition is a tapestry of 42 links which endows a host of themes, and a wide range of social science and humanities subjects with many layers of meaning. It evokes a complex range of responses. The author has evolved a style which is highly individual yet, by fusing together so much from the humanities and the social and physical sciences, from his own life and his religion, appeals to both the novitiate, the veteran, people on a multitude of spiritual and secular paths. There are some 1500-2000 pages of autobiographical narrative, poetry, essays and interviews which can be seen as one long diary, journal and commentary on life.
1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
"Know thyself"-From the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
"The unexamined life is not worth living."-Socrates
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"I am, myself, the matter of my book." -Michael Montaigne, The Essays, 1588.
"I should not talk about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."-Henry David Thoreau, 1844(ca)
"Turn thy sight unto thyself that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting."-Baha'u'llah, Hidden Words.
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION
Although thi | |  | | The Emergence of a Baha'i Consciousness in World Literature: The Poetry of Roger White
This 400 page book examines the life and writing of Roger White, a Canadian who joined the Baha'i Faith in 1947. he died in 1993 and wrote some of the finest poetry of his generation.
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THE EMERGENCE OF A BAHA'I CONSCIOUSNESS IN WORLD LITERATURE: THE POETRY OF ROGER WHITE
Geoffrey Nash, in a review of Roger White's poetry in 1982, wrote that White heralded "the development of Baha'i consciousness in world literature." Literature, poetry and prose, letters and other genres, have been arriving on the world's literary stage from the pens of Baha'is for more than a century and a half. White certainly has been, in Nash's words, a herald. White's work emerged from obscurity at the same time as the Baha'i Faith was rising from an obscurity in which it had existed |
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